Gen Writes 🇨🇦
LightNews LightNews
banner
genl.bsky.social
Gen Writes 🇨🇦
@genl.bsky.social
3.1K followers 1.6K following 990 posts
Canadian| Disabled| Mom| Writer| Supporter of writers| Community Lead & Proofreader at Cold Open Stories| Reader and Ass't Editor @wishbonewords.bsky.social| Copyeditor| Published 20+ short stories

https://linktr.ee/gen_writes
https://ko-fi.com/genwrites
Posts Replies Media Videos
genl.bsky.social
We had snow and ice yesterday
Small trees with ice coating due to icy rain and snow mix yesterday
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
genl.bsky.social
To your keyboards! Halloween is just around the corner and that's your deadline to submit your Warhammer Fast Fiction story with the Prompt the Enemy Within!

The link is posted in the OG post! Check out details on the website!
1000 words. 1 Theme. 1 Winner. The Enemy Within The longest-running Warhammer 40,000 Fast Fiction Competition Fast Fiction deadline October 31, 2025
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
genl.bsky.social
The Fast Fiction contest is in full swing!
The new prompt is The Enemy Within!.
Submit your WH40k story written in 1k words or less by October 31st, 2025, at 11:59 pm (PT).

There are no faction restrictions for this anthology!

Details
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

#Warhammer
1000 words. 1 theme. 1 Winner. The Enemy Within The Longest-running Warhammer 40,000 Fast Fiction Writing Competition. Fast Fiction deadline October 31st, 2025 Cold Open Stories
September 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
genl.bsky.social
If you like fantasy romance, powers and abilities, arranged marriages vs love, vs duty, then check out this novel (at a reduced price on Amazon right now.
I added a picture of the synopsis. Please leave a review.
Available in paperback and on KU.

link:
www.amazon.ca/Golden-Wolf-...
The Golden Wolf and the Stormweilder A novel by Tabitha Strickland. The cover features a golden wolf symbol set against storm clouds and lightning. The synopsis of the novel appears on the back cover.
June 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
genl.bsky.social
To your keyboards!
The Theme for the new Fast Fiction contest is "The Scouring". Submit your 1k words or fewer Warhammer story about the scouring by June 30th at 11:59 pm PT for a chance to be featured in the anthology.
Thanks to guest judge Tristan Parker
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
May 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
genl.bsky.social
The prompt is out;@coldopenstories.bsky.social
is looking for your Warhammer story about "The Scouring." Send us your 1k-word or less story by June 30th, 2025 (PT) for a chance to be published in the Anthology

here: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
Red square with blurry image of a primarch and astartes (Horus). At the top: The word unofficial with the Warhammer Loo underneath. Followed by Cold Open Stories in white. White letters in the centre reads: The Scouring. Fast fiction contest XXIII Writing contest closes June 30, 2025 @ 11:59 PM PT
March 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
genl.bsky.social
Check out Twelve Paths to Glory, The Fire Heart Trilogy, and other works by @jolantru.bsky.social Joyce Ch'ng available on Amazon, Scholastic, Cold Open Stories, Itch and many other venues.
Picture of a novel by Joyce Change titles Twelve Paths to Glory on a fuzzy white blanket.
March 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
genl.bsky.social
My kid asked for candied egg, regular egg, bacon, buttered toast, and tea for dinner.

Bienvenue au Quebec.
LA cabane à sure sans les crèpes.

Also, I dropped the bag of milk and ruined the tea 😫
Pour maple syrup in au pot Wait until it bowls then drop the scrambled egg in. Stir, let simmer the scrambled egg. Tea with buttered toast, bacon, regular egg and candied egg.
March 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
genl.bsky.social
Scattered

A special ops team is sent on a mission to retrieve a gem and is inexplicably scattered in time to an uncharted world where everything is perfect until the night falls.

*Aliens hybrids and gods
*Mechsuits and tech
*Sci-fi/Fantasy Horror
*Light romance

#QuestPit #SF #H #A #W
A sun ride over a forest. An angel statue in a fountain A pleasant looking town at sunset A lovely woman with dark hair dressed in a 1950's white dress with polka dots. But when the night falls inscribed in red. A blue portal in the sand. Plaster hands reaching out of a wall. A dimly illuminated castle on a cliff 2 members of a special ops team, guns ready, full green gear.
February 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
genl.bsky.social
Only 3 days left to submit to the Cold Open Stories No Limits anthology!

This may very well be the first time there is no prompt. Write the Warhammer (1k word max.) story you want to tell & send it our way before the end of the day on January 31st, 2025.

40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
January 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
genl.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit to the fast fiction contest. The prompt is no limits. Write the story you want from the POV of your choice and submit by January 31st, 11:59 pm (PT)!
Details here:
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

Thanks to guest judge @jolantru.bsky.social
December 22, 2024 at 1:31 AM
genl.bsky.social
I might as well join the trend. Since I have so many new friends, one like = one question answered.
November 29, 2024 at 2:37 PM
genl.bsky.social
Infusion day has come again.
They put the IV in so I can move around.

Spoilered because of needle.
Me sitting in a black lazyboy with IV in forearm.
November 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
genl.bsky.social
Me and my emotional support goose.
A selfie of myself, smiling with curly, correction, frizzy brown hair and a blue shirt, holding a goose plushy, facing the camera. The goose is white with an off-white beak (not a cobra chicken, AKA Canada Goose, just a white goose.)
November 20, 2024 at 2:05 AM
genl.bsky.social
I like what I've got so far, but it's hard to not make typos with two of these things on.

#hEDS life
#writing
Right hand in a black brace over a laptop keyboard with document open. Reads Chapter 2 Zahria in italics My thumbs hurt, lol
November 19, 2024 at 8:55 PM
genl.bsky.social
Search history as I continue to work on Scattered.

I'm going somewhere with this. Well, I'm not, but Jax, Zahria, Akuji, Seth, Robin, and Kloridian are....
Google search What is the scientific word for dust What is the scientific denomination for ashes What is the scientific denomination for silk
November 17, 2024 at 9:31 PM
genl.bsky.social
Brace yourself
Winter is coming

#hEDS edition
Neck brace, knee braces, elbow sleeve, wrist braces and sacro-illiac brace
November 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
genl.bsky.social
Taken from FBs sarcasm page.

Any other heroes out there?
I am in this post
People who take naps are the real heroes. It takes courage to wake up twice in one day.
November 17, 2024 at 5:06 PM
genl.bsky.social
This is a sleepy Thor
Tuxedo cat sleeping at the foot of a bed. Tuxedo cat sitting on a backpack
November 15, 2024 at 7:57 PM
genl.bsky.social
My friend Squishy commissioned Argonaus to make me a surprise Sororitas bust.
This is Sister Bethany of my homebrewed Pronatus Order of the Dawn.

Thanks, Squishy and Argonaus, I love it!
A side view of a Warhammer 40k Sororitas in silver and ice blue with golden accents and fleur de lys.
November 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM
genl.bsky.social
Apparently, there are no plaid-clad, long-bearded fairy dwarves that write the book for the author, so away I go, across the void, into the desert with my three bottles of water, my sandwich and my wit to save the world, or you know, force Elrik to do it for me.

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #W
Alt below
November 13, 2024 at 3:43 PM
genl.bsky.social
Sharing my excitement is all...
November 13, 2024 at 3:16 PM
genl.bsky.social
Scattered

Doctor Who's weeping angels X The Outer Limits X Stargate

...please stand by for Nightfall.

RUN!

#UnhingedPit #A #R #H #SPEC #W
Upper left t right: sunrise over a peaceful garden. A fountain with the statue of an angel. A Peaceful pleasant town at sunset. A woman dressed in a 50s era white with blue polka dot dress. Middle: But when the night falls... written in red across. Lower left to right: a blue portal in the night. Hands reaching out from concrete wall, a castled with eerie lighting, two armed soldiers ready for combat.
November 13, 2024 at 2:13 PM
genl.bsky.social
From the author of Fire Heart (@jolantru.bsky.social) check out Twelve Paths to Glory also, available on Amazon!
November 11, 2024 at 2:35 AM
genl.bsky.social
Corporal Sydney Smith, reg. force, Signals served in Great Britain, France and other European Countries during World War 2, passed away 3 months short of his 100th birthday.

We remember them and we honour them. Thank you for your service.
November 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM